| When you click on Edit this Page in the navigation area at the bottom of any WikiWeb page you are brought into a text editor for editing the contents of the topic.
Most text that you type is just word wrapped and appears as you enter it. A number of simple formatting options are available:
Blank lines create new paragraphs.
_text_ gives italics.
*text* gives bold.
--- or more dashes inserts a horizontal separator.
You can create indented paragraphs and list using multiples of 3 spaces or the TAB key as follows. Note that in some browsers Ctrl-I can be used in place of a TAB.
<3 spaces>* gives a list item.
<3 spaces>9 (or any number) gives a numbered list item.
<6 spaces>* gives an indented list.
Note that when you save a page, TAB characters are automatically converted to multiple spaces.
Internal Links
You can create an internal link to another page in this web simply by typing a WikiName. If the linked page does not yet exist then it will be displayed followed by a ?. Click on the ? to define and edit the new page.
If you want to create a link with a name that does not conform to the WikiName format, enclose it in percent signs.
HTML tags
In addition to all this you should find that most HTML tags will work as expected. However, you are not encouraged to make your pages too pretty. Remember, it is the content that matters and the text for your page must remain easy for others to edit.
External Links
There are a variety of way to create external links.
http:// is linked automagically.
https:// is linked automagically.
news:// is linked automagically.
ftp:// is linked automagically.
gopher:// is linked automagically.
mailto: is linked automagically.
Links to .jpg, .jpeg and .gif files are treated as images to be displayed within the page itself.
External Link References
Sometimes it is useful to be able to link to external pages without the full URL appearing inline in the text. To do this you can create a numerical reference by placing [nn] as a place marker for the link. Then, somewhere else in the document (usually at the bottom), define the link using [nn: some full URL]. For example:
You may like to visit the Object Arts[1] site. They wrote the code for this wiki.
You can see how this is defined by editing the text of this page.
[1: http://www.object-arts.com]
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